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Nvidia's mid-range GPU is up 36% in two months — here's whether it still makes sense for running models at home, or if $900 changes the answer entirely.
Ravi Malhotra · 19h ago · 6 min
Building around a single GPU used to be the obvious move. With cards jumping 39% in two months, the math on prebuilt AI appliances just got a lot more interesting.
Nadia Rahman · 1d ago · 8 min
The RTX 5060 Ti got hit hardest, the RTX 5080 barely moved, and that flipped the value math. Here's what actually makes sense, card by card, in August 2026.
Lena Fischer · 1d ago · 9 min
The RTX PRO 6000 nearly doubled in eight months. Here's what your money actually buys against every real alternative for running big models at home.
Ravi Malhotra · 1d ago · 8 min
Nvidia's trading at its cheapest valuation in a decade. Meanwhile the price of renting a GPU by the hour nearly doubled. Both are true at once.
Ravi Malhotra · 1d ago · 7 min
MSI just told investors gaming hardware prices are rising 15 to 30% this year, and the actual culprit is a DRAM shortage AI datacenters are causing, not GPU chips themselves.
Ravi Malhotra · 2d ago · 6 min
For four days in Texas you could buy an RTX 5090 at launch price. This week, Newegg's median RTX 5070 costs $240 more than it did in June.
Nadia Rahman · 4d ago · 6 min
While DRAM shortages push RTX 5070 prices up 36% and RTX 5060 up 27% at the median, AMD's 12GB Navi 48 card just fell to its lowest price ever. Here's whether that math still makes sense.
Nadia Rahman · 5d ago · 7 min
QuakeCon 2026 is, right now, the one place on the planet where Nvidia's flagship still costs what it said on the box.
Nadia Rahman · Aug 7 · 6 min
AMD finalized this price increase weeks ago and sat on it, waiting to see if Nvidia would take the backlash first. Now that Nvidia's moved, so has AMD.
Nadia Rahman · Aug 6 · 6 min
AMD, Nvidia, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo all raised prices in 2026. it's the same memory shortage breaking every platform.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 5 · 7 min
GDDR7 modules and TSMC wafer costs just pushed every RTX 50 card higher this week — but the ugliest number isn't the one everyone's quoting.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 4 · 6 min
South Korea is the canary. TSMC wafer costs and $20 memory chips just pushed the RTX 5090 to 2.5x its sticker price — here's the actual buy-or-skip math for running AI models at home.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 4 · 8 min
A third price hike in one year is reportedly coming for the RTX 50 series — and if you're buying VRAM for local AI, not frame rates, the calculation isn't the same as 'wait for a sale.'
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 4 · 7 min
MSI and Colorful just repriced their RTX 5070 Ti cards in China, and the increase traces straight back to memory costs squeezed by AI server demand.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 3 · 6 min
the 5080 Super, 5070 Ti Super and 5070 Super are reportedly built, boxed, and sitting at board partners — Nvidia just won't let anyone sell them yet.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 2 · 6 min
The $279 RX 9050 looks like a normal budget GPU launch, until you notice AMD quietly brought back a 64-bit, 4GB memory config nobody's shipped since 2022.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 1 · 6 min
A $299 budget GPU got $75 pricier in 72 hours flat. Here's the actual chain of events, and the honest call on buying now versus waiting.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 1 · 7 min
Nvidia just hiked GPU prices for the third time this year, and for the first time it hit everything — not just the flagship.
Ravi Malhotra · Jul 31 · 7 min
MSI, PNY and Colorful raised RTX 50-series distributor prices by up to 59% over MSRP. The cause isn't greed — it's the same memory shortage that's been quietly inflating everything with a chip in it. Here's whether to buy now.
Ravi Malhotra · Jul 28 · 8 min